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  • Last of the Great Scouts (Illustrated)

    The Life Story of Col. William F. Cody

    Series series Western Cowboy Classics 56
    William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American scout, bison hunter, and showman. He was born in Le Claire, Iowa Territory (now the U.S. state of Iowa), but he lived for several years in his father's hometown in Canada before the family again moved to the Kansas Territory.Buffalo Bill started working at the age of eleven, after his father's death, and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • JFK Assassination - What They Told Me

    "JFK Assassination - What They Told Me" unveils a treasury of knowledge crafted by William Holiday, a dedicated educator with a passion for unraveling the truths behind the JFK assassination. Within these pages lie an extensive compendium of photographs, film segments, interviews, recordings, and documents, offering readers a journey through the event's multifaceted dimensions. A career educator, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Union Soldier in Savannah and the Carolinas

    A Love and Valor Chapter

    "A Union Soldier in Savannah and the Carolinas: A Love and Valor Chapter" offers a captivating look into life during the American Civil War. Both personal and meticulously researched, this one-of-a-kind book offers profound insight into daily life during one of the most difficult moments of American history. This is a must-read for historians and all who are looking to get a rare glimpse into some ... Read more

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  • 1927. O vară care a schimbat lumea

    by Bill Bryson ...
    Series series Historia
    În vara anului 1927, America avea o bursă prosperă, un președinte care lucra doar patru ore pe zi (și dormea cam tot restul timpului), un sculptor pe jumătate nebun ce plănuia să cioplească patru capete gigantice în stânca inaccesibilului munte Rushmore, o revărsare devastatoare a apelor fluviului Mississippi și un tânăr aviator necunoscut pe nume Charles Lindbergh, care urma să devină cel mai ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Cherokee Warriors

    by Philip Steele ...
    A history of two Cherokee men and the personal hardships they faced against the US government in the nineteenth century.The expanding American frontier in the late 1800s created a battleground on which white and Indian cultures inevitably clashed. Slowly and inexorably the Native Americans were pushed from their land and stripped of their birthright.This engrossing volume documents the lives of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mardi Gras Indians

    by Michael Smith ...
    A sociological study of the African American carnival revelers in New Orleans who dress in Native American-influenced costumes.One of the most dazzling elements of the Mardi Gras celebrations, the Mardi Gras Indians receive the attention and respect of carnival-goers for their elaborately beaded costumes and entertaining dances. But what few realize about the groups is that the parading is more ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We the People

    by Leo Huberman ...
    Series Book 34 - Monthly Review Press Classic Titles
    A history of labour and the labour movement in the USA, originally published in the 1930s. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include: Here They Come! - ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Errand into the Wilderness

    by Perry Miller ...
    The title of this book by Perry Miller, who is world-famous as an interpreter of the American past, comes close to posing the question it has been Mr. Miller's lifelong purpose to answer: What was the underlying aim of the first colonists in coming to America? In what light did they see themselves? As men and women undertaking a mission that was its own cause and justification? Or did they ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Movements of Political Protest in Canada 1640-1840

    by S.D. Clark ...
    Series series Heritage
    In this volume, Professor Clark shows that for two hundred years Canadian society was subject to the same kind of disturbing and disruptive forces that revealed themselves in the United States in the Revolutionary period. In Canada, as in the United States, there was a frontier element which, economically, socially, and culturally, did not feel itself part of the established political order, and ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Andrew Jackson

    Symbol for an Age

    Series series Galaxy Books
    Was the man who lent his name to "Jacksonian America" a rough-hewn frontiersman? A powerful, victorious general? Or merely a man of will? Separating myth from reality, John William Ward here demonstrates how Andrew Jackson captured the imagination of a generation of Americans and came to represent not just leadership but the ideal of courage, foresight, and ability. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Minnesota and the Manifest Destiny of the Canadian Northwest

    A Study in Canadian-American Relations

    Series series Heritage
    From the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, only a line separates Canada from the United States—the mute evidence of each nation's manifest destiny. As a boundary, the 49th parallel is entirely manmade and will never really divide the Northern Great Plains, for it is a region at once geographically and historically united. Certainly from 1821 to 1869-70, the years limiting this study, a ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Telltale Lilac Bush

    And Other West Virginia Ghost Tales

    “Spine-tingling pleasure and entertainment, along with a lot of folklore and history of the particular region” (Lexington Herald-Leader).West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. And, like all folklore, these tales reveal much of the history of the region: its isolation and violence, the passions and bloodshed of the Civil War era, the hardships of miners and railroad ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nevada's Twentieth-Century Mining Boom

    Tonopah, Goldfield, Ely

    Twenty years after the decline of the magnificent Comstock Lode, Nevada’s prosperity and population had diminished to such a degree that some popular articles questioned whether to deprive Nevada of her statehood. Then in the spring of 1900, a miner discovered silver in south-central Nevada. This casual find precipitated a spectacular latter-day mining boom that, among other things, helped to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Cannibals All! Or, Slaves without Masters

    Series series The John Harvard Library
    Cannibals All! got more attention in William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator than any other book in the history of that abolitionist journal. And Lincoln is said to have been more angered by George Fitzhugh than by any other pro-slavery writer, yet he unconsciously paraphrased Cannibals All! in his House Divided speech.Fitzhugh was provocative because of his stinging attack on free society, laissez ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • History of the Lincoln County War

    In the annals of western history, the Lincoln County War stands out as a complex and tragic event in which lives were lost, fortunes destroyed, and peaceful citizens transformed into lonely, exiled outlaws. A classic reference work on the era of Billy the Kid, this fast-moving account brings new meaning to the war and to those individuals who became its victims. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Land Office Business: The Settlement and Administration of American Public Lands, 1789-1837

    This book should be of interest to undergraduate courses in American history and politics. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Discretionary Justice

    A Preliminary Inquiry

    Series series Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
    Research about justice for individual parties has been primarily concerned with the content of rules and principles and has insufficiently tried to penetrate discretionary justice as meted out by police, prosecutors, and other administrators. In this groundbreaking study Kenneth Culp Davis dispels the prevailing notion that discretionary justice is too elusive for scholarly investigation.Davis ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Huey Long's Louisiana Hayride

    The American Rehearsal for Dictatorship

    A lively free-hitting narrative . . . written with a proper appreciation of the grotesque humor of many of its episodes . . . but also with the proper appreciation of the political significance . . . for the rest of the United States.New York Times Book Review This book deserves to be widely read.Library Journal Nothing like the regime of Huey Long has ever been enacted on American soil before. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ornamented Tray

    Two Centuries of Ornamented Trays (1720-1920)

    by W.D. John ...
    This authoritative and definitive work contains the first formal history of antique trays every published. Each of its six chapters is written by a different authority. They discuss:Lace-Edge PaintingThe "Chippendale" StyleTrays Ornamented with Gold LeafThe Freehand Bronze TechniquesStenciled TraysThe Country Painted TrayThe book is lavishly illustrated with more than 500 photographs, seven of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Papers of Jefferson Davis

    1808–1840

    Series Book 1 - The Papers of Jefferson Davis
    Much of Jefferson Davis' life and career has been obscured in controversy and misinterpretation. This full, carefully annotated edition will make it possible for scholars to reassess the man who served as President of the Confederacy and who in the aftermath of war became the symbolic leader of the South.For almost a decade a dedicated team of scholars has been collecting and documenting Davis' ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Warren Court and the Constitution

    A Critical View of Judicial Activism

    The U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren attempted to transfer the balance of American political power from elected representatives to a coalition of restless, ambitious power-seekers on the liberal-left, charges author John Denton Carter. The Warren Court and the Constitution: A Critical View of Judicial Activism contends that the appointment of Warren as chief justice in 1953 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos

    This is the story of Edith Warner, who lived for more than twenty years as a neighbor to the Indians of San Ildefonso Pueblo, near Los Alamos, New Mexico. She was a remarkable woman, a friend to everyone who knew her, from her Indian companion Tilano, who was an elder of San Ildefonso, to Niels Bohr, Robert Oppenheimer, and the other atomic scientists who worked at Los Alamos during World War II. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • City Notebook: A Reporter's Portrait of a Vanishing New York

    McCandlish Phillips, whose by-line has been familiar to readers of The New York Times since 1955, has looked into just about every corner of the city and has written about nearly every aspect of its life.New York is not the same city today as it was yesterday. You cannot set foot in the same New York twice. Yet you can capture its momentary essence in City Notebook. One of the best metropolitan ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Nevada Place Names

    A Geographical Dictionary

    Author and researcher Helen Carlson spent almost fourteen years searching for the origins of Nevada’s place names, using the maps of explorers, miners, government surveyors, and city planners and poring through historical accounts, archival documents, county records, and newspaper files. The result of her labors is Nevada Place Names, a fascinating mixture of history spiced with folklore, legend, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD